THE SEQUEL: pregnancy announcement

TRINA + ANTS

Last year I had the privilege of designing a wedding invite for my sister and brother-in-law who wed last month. They had a gorgeous wedding with an even more beautiful bride a groom.
Every happiness to Mr and Mrs Coyle! xx

AHOY!

In my last post I shared some photos from my sailor themed birthday... (You would think I was turning 5!) And this is the invitation I sent out beforehand. I used an old photo of myself on the back of the main invite from when I was 6 or 7. I drew a map of the area we would be staying which I roll folded up and wrote my friends names on the back. I threaded through some navy and white bakers twine to finish it off. Ta da!

SAM + TRISTAN: table numbers

To match Sam and Tristan's invites with the redwoods theme I did these tables numbers, each with their own animal. Some of the illustrations are from the original invite... I think the fox is my favourite :) The bottom photo reminds me of the memory game that kids play! Maybe I should make some playing cards? You can check out some of my other invites here.

SAM + TRISTAN: invites

On Sunday the lovely Sam Hearn and Tristan Anderson wed in the gorgeous redwoods in Rotorua. I did their wedding invitations using photos of the redwoods and adding in illustrations of animals. Sam loves otters so I created an otter bride and groom to represent them :) I had so much fun designing this one! Come back here tomorrow to see what I did for their table numbers.

MR + MRS COATS

On April 14 my two lovely friends James and Cara May wed. Such a joyous occasion! I created their Order of Service to match their Invitations. And with my VERY amateur video making skills I've tried to show how it works. On the surface it looks like a double sided sheet, but it folds three times to reveal four different sides. A very similar design that I used for my own wedding.

The two of them had the most gorgeous outdoor wedding under a great big tree right beside the water. Magic! I couldn't be happier for the two of them :)

After the ceremony Brendon and I managed to find this rustic old mint coloured door which I loved! Naturally, we took a few snaps next to it :)

JAMES + CARA

I've just finished making wedding invitations for my good friends James and Caramay. We based the design around these round boxes and I used a 3inch circle punch to cut out all of the circles. I printed the "invitation side" on a thick paper stock and the "photo side" on sticker sheets. I tacked on the invitation side to the ribbon lining it all up and then I peeled off the sticker side and attached it to the back of the invitation.

Each invite has 7 circles on a ribbon which can be hung on a hook or attached to a fridge. I think my poor fingers need a bit of a rest from putting them all together! I must say, I love the little teepee illustration we came up with.

 

In other news, I bought my first set of watercolours and I can't wait to try them this weekend! Eeee. 

Hi guys, since posting this I have had quite a few inquires about this invitation. Unfortunately, due to the time consuming nature of this project – and difficulty of sourcing round boxes – this was a one-off. However, if you would like invites like this (minus the box) or any other custom invitation, feel free to email me at tori.veysey@gmail.com. Thanks :)

ORDER OF SERVICE

Soo.... I thought I'd do one last post about my wedding... It's the last I promise!
For our Order of Service I really wanted to do something a little different. I like little details, things that are a bit unexpected with an element of discovery. I decided to do a design that has four sides and folds inside itself three times... A little hard to describe in words! Here is a wee clip to show how it folds...

Some people got it right away, others took a while to figure it out... And some just couldn't get it at all! But fun none the less :) Plus it entertained our guests while they waited for me to arrive!

We really wanted this to be an opportunity to honour and thank our families and bridal party. It was also a good way to "introduce" our bridal party to guests who didn't know them. We also included photos of our parents on their wedding day! They're too cute :)
See the matching invites HERE

T&B INVITES

After posting the fiesta wedding invite I thought it might be a good idea to put up some pictures of my own wedding invites. I've been a bit obsessed with birds for a wee while and they some how managed to sneak on here... And then proceeded to permeate the whole wedding!
This is a two piece (double sided) design that was tied together with cotton and a circle rsvp card.
I used a fiskars embossing corner punch to do the edges and make it a little more special.

I also decided to make my own envelopes (New Zealand seems to have a very limited variety of envelopes). I was hooked on the string and button styled envelopes and could only ever find them in a long skinny size or large A4. It's a good thing weddings are a one–off deal... I had very sore hands after all the punching, cutting and tying :)

SOME LIKE IT HOT

In this months New Zealand Weddings Magazine (Autumn 2011) there is a feature called Some Like It Hot which is based on a Mexican Fiesta!

The talented photographers at Sutherland Kovach Studio shot these cute photos and asked me to design them an invite for the theme.

Check out more of the photos here or go grab yourself a copy of the magazine and check out the full article.

Plus photos of my own wedding (also shot by Sutherland Kovach) are coming soon!